I dare you to find non-Macs from 5 years ago that sell anywhere near $799 now.
Isn't that the point? You're not going to find non-Macs selling at that kind of price because quite simply, they're not worth that much. The prices that used Macs sell at is absolutely absurd, especially given that it won't be long before Apple drops support for them in OSX. Sure, you could run Windows or Linux on them, but if you wanted to run Windows or Linux on a 5 year-old computer, just buy a used PC at a fraction of the cost.
The lander was more or less a success. They anticipated that something like this might happen, which is exactly why they equipped the lander with a large enough battery, which was non-rechargeable but sized to run the lander about 60 hours, which was enough time to run all the experiments at least once and to complete its primary objectives. Which is exactly what happened. The solar cells and the smaller secondary rechargeable battery were for an extended mission, which would have been a bonus if they worked. It's unfortunate that didn't happen, and also that the harpoons did not fire, but overall the lander was a success. And there's still a chance the lander may come out of hibernation in the next few months as it is.
My guess is that the solar cells on Rosetta were used to power heaters as the probe and spacecraft traveled to the comet which kept the batteries and other equipment warm during the journey. I'm somewhat surprised that they expect that Philae will wake up actually. It's not outside the realm of possibility, and I hope they're right, but my understanding is that once the batteries get cold enough to freeze they're basically done. Perhaps the 1-2 hours of sunlight Philae gets per day is just enough to charge the batteries just enough to run the heaters at night.
I assume the real reason is because Yahoo doesn't have a browser. Google has Chrome, which competes with Firefox, and Microsoft has Internet Explorer, which also competes with Firefox. So they'd rather deal with someone like Yahoo - the fact that it's just Bing doesn't really matter.
I'm familiar with IceCat and IceWeasel (which is still my all-time favorite browser name), but not Abrowser. So I had to do a search: http://abrowser.sourceforge.net/
"Open Source browser made in Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express that runs off of Internet Explorer's Interface."
Batteries are almost never a good idea, they are expensive and quite nefarious for the environment when at their end of life.
Depends on the type of battery. For something that doesn't have to move, lead-acid batteries would be a typical choice. While lead-acid batteries have some nasty stuff in them, they are easily recycled and it's even profitable to do so as the recovered lead is valuable. Lead-acid batteries are already one of the most recycled items, with recycling rates of over 99%.
Given that pretty much every major browser other than IE is either open source or uses an open source rendering engine there's plenty of alternative browsers out there.
Off the top of my head, on the Gecko side there's Palemoon, IceCat (was IceWeasel), Comodo IceDragon, and WaterFox. On the Blink/Webkit side there's SRWare Iron, Comodo Dragon, Comodo Secure Browser, Opera, Midori, Torch Browser, CoolNovo (was ChromePlus), Superbird Browser.
There's also some that are basically wrappers around IE, such as SlimBrowser, though if you're concerned about privacy I'd probably shy away from using IE in any form.
I also took AP Calculus in high school, and it compared pretty well to the Calculus I courses I saw others taking in college. The thing I saw at my high school was that the gap between the highest level math courses and the bare minimum you could graduate with was huge. While there were students leaving high school with the first semester of college-level Calculus done, there were also students graduating that barely understood what I learned in 6th grade. Even in college it wasn't much different. Obviously some degrees required some pretty rigorous math courses, other degrees only required one take "college algebra" which I considered to be about 10th grade math.
That's not how these buy-here-pay-here places work. They usually set things up so that they lease the car to you, with some stipulation that the ownership of the car transfers to the buyer at the end of the lease if the buyer makes all their payments on time. Hence, you literally "rent to own". So in that case, they do own the car for the duration of the "rent" period. This also means that if they repossess the car, the buyer loses everything no matter how much or little they still "owed" on the car. It's not the same as your normal car dealers, where you actually buy the car by taking out a loan and using the car as collateral.
Microsoft will only let you go back two versions, so a Windows 8 license does not allow you to go back to XP, unless you meant XP mode in Windows 7. You could, however, install Vista if you really wanted to, though that's going to get cut off pretty soon when they release Windows 10. Actually, at this point you really can't get XP on a new PC. Microsoft isn't licensing XP to OEMs, OEMs can't license a newer version and downgrade to XP, and Microsoft stopped selling XP retail some time ago. You can install it yourself if you have a MSDN subscription, or if you bought the full retail version back in the day that allows you to move it to new hardware, or if you are a large enough company to negotiate some special deal with Microsoft.
Linux is free because it is open source, but that can have its own associated restrictions (associated with the time input required to it to a certain level of functionality, depending on your Linux expertise.
As if someone doesn't also have to invest time into a Windows (or OSX) system depending on their level of expertise?
If you don't need the VM for long term, you can download an evaluation version of Windows that expires after a bit. There's currently a 8.1 evaluation that's good for 90 days, and a technical preview for 10 that's good until (I think) April. You can also just reuse your Vista or later Windows disk, skip typing in the key, and it'll run for a few days before demanding a key though I don't know if this would technically be a license violation. Finally, with some versions of Windows 7 you can install XP mode for free, which gives a Windows XP VM that you can play around with.
Perhaps it is the subsequent "performance restoration" step, where the contents of the drive are re-written to make the data "new" as oposed to "old".?
That would be my guess. Before TRIM became a thing, some of the early drives would try to understand the file system to know what blocks weren't being used. Many of these drives only understood NTFS which is why they wouldn't perform as well in Linux (or if you ran Windows but turned on full disk encryption).
The drop in gasoline tax revenue will logically lead to "car electricity" taxes... coming soon to a charging station near you.
They won't bother with taxing charging stations. What they want to do is put a GPS tracker in every car so they can track where the car is at all times... errr... I mean tax based upon where the car has been driven. They're been pushing for this already.
My tap water is pumped out of an aquifer where it has been for decades. This is of course, unsustainable in the long term, but in the meantime I'll take my chances with my tap water (which tastes great, by the way) instead of the bottled stuff.
Up north it's not uncommon to see temperatures that low. I've never seen analog gauges in a car or truck act up at those temperatures. LCDs generally work, but the contrast can get screwy making them hard to read, and they update really slowly. LED and vacuum florescent displays are generally fine.
A couple notes: Numbers with 0 on the right without any decimal point (e.g. 10, 2500) create an ambiguity with sigfigs as to whether those zeros are significant or not. Some authors put a bar over the last significant figure to clarify, but many do not. In fact, one of the textbooks I used --- I believe it was for trig --- changed its practice in a later addition regarding whether those zeros are significant or not.
I've never heard of that. I've always just used scientific notation to remove any ambiguity. Sure, 1 x 10^1 or 1.0 x 10^1 is a bit more cumbersome than 10, but at least it's clear.
To be fair, he only claimed it will readable. That doesn't mean we'd be using CSS 500 years from now, but that a computer 500 years now would be able to understand it.
The jokes about Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh date back more than 10 years before the release of Vista. Besides, I used Vista on a Phenom II with 8GB of ram, and when you throw that kind of hardware at it, the performance was perfectly fine. I also ran it on an older P4 with 2GB of ram, and even then it wasn't horrible.
There never was a 4GHz P4 released, so it's not clear how that's even in the database. Maybe it's some engineering sample, though as someone else pointed out it's half as fast as the 3.8 Ghz P4 (the fastest released Pentium 4) so my guess it's an error. In any case, I wouldn't use if for any meaningful comparisons. Also, you might want to note that the Core i7 has a turbo boost up to 3.3 Ghz and I would have to assume that's what it's really running at during any benchmark, so to call it a 1.7 Ghz CPU is misleading at best. It's also a dual core, so to compare it to single core is also bit unfair. Perhaps the closest comparison might be the Pentium D Extreme Edition which was two hyperthreading P4's in a single chip which would be the closest thing to the i7. http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1955&cmp[]=1130
You'll see that the i7 is now only about 4-5 times faster.
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I dare you to find non-Macs from 5 years ago that sell anywhere near $799 now.
Isn't that the point? You're not going to find non-Macs selling at that kind of price because quite simply, they're not worth that much. The prices that used Macs sell at is absolutely absurd, especially given that it won't be long before Apple drops support for them in OSX. Sure, you could run Windows or Linux on them, but if you wanted to run Windows or Linux on a 5 year-old computer, just buy a used PC at a fraction of the cost.
That's not how Microsoft does it.
Windows 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 3.11
MSDOS 6.0 -> 6.2 -> 6.21 -> 6.22
Well, at least that's how they did it. Nowadays version numbers don't seem to mean much in Redmond.
The lander was more or less a success. They anticipated that something like this might happen, which is exactly why they equipped the lander with a large enough battery, which was non-rechargeable but sized to run the lander about 60 hours, which was enough time to run all the experiments at least once and to complete its primary objectives. Which is exactly what happened. The solar cells and the smaller secondary rechargeable battery were for an extended mission, which would have been a bonus if they worked. It's unfortunate that didn't happen, and also that the harpoons did not fire, but overall the lander was a success. And there's still a chance the lander may come out of hibernation in the next few months as it is.
My guess is that the solar cells on Rosetta were used to power heaters as the probe and spacecraft traveled to the comet which kept the batteries and other equipment warm during the journey. I'm somewhat surprised that they expect that Philae will wake up actually. It's not outside the realm of possibility, and I hope they're right, but my understanding is that once the batteries get cold enough to freeze they're basically done. Perhaps the 1-2 hours of sunlight Philae gets per day is just enough to charge the batteries just enough to run the heaters at night.
I assume the real reason is because Yahoo doesn't have a browser. Google has Chrome, which competes with Firefox, and Microsoft has Internet Explorer, which also competes with Firefox. So they'd rather deal with someone like Yahoo - the fact that it's just Bing doesn't really matter.
I'm familiar with IceCat and IceWeasel (which is still my all-time favorite browser name), but not Abrowser. So I had to do a search:
http://abrowser.sourceforge.net/
"Open Source browser made in Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express that runs off of Internet Explorer's Interface."
Uhh... seriously?
I'm kind of surprised that they can do this, and still call the browser Firefox. Isn't stuff like this the whole reason we have IceWeasel?
Sadly, a lot of employers don't care. You either have 3-5 years experience with Visual Studio Professional 2013 or your resume gets circular-filed.
Depends on the type of battery. For something that doesn't have to move, lead-acid batteries would be a typical choice. While lead-acid batteries have some nasty stuff in them, they are easily recycled and it's even profitable to do so as the recovered lead is valuable. Lead-acid batteries are already one of the most recycled items, with recycling rates of over 99%.
Given that pretty much every major browser other than IE is either open source or uses an open source rendering engine there's plenty of alternative browsers out there.
Off the top of my head, on the Gecko side there's Palemoon, IceCat (was IceWeasel), Comodo IceDragon, and WaterFox.
On the Blink/Webkit side there's SRWare Iron, Comodo Dragon, Comodo Secure Browser, Opera, Midori, Torch Browser, CoolNovo (was ChromePlus), Superbird Browser.
There's also some that are basically wrappers around IE, such as SlimBrowser, though if you're concerned about privacy I'd probably shy away from using IE in any form.
I also took AP Calculus in high school, and it compared pretty well to the Calculus I courses I saw others taking in college. The thing I saw at my high school was that the gap between the highest level math courses and the bare minimum you could graduate with was huge. While there were students leaving high school with the first semester of college-level Calculus done, there were also students graduating that barely understood what I learned in 6th grade. Even in college it wasn't much different. Obviously some degrees required some pretty rigorous math courses, other degrees only required one take "college algebra" which I considered to be about 10th grade math.
That's not how these buy-here-pay-here places work. They usually set things up so that they lease the car to you, with some stipulation that the ownership of the car transfers to the buyer at the end of the lease if the buyer makes all their payments on time. Hence, you literally "rent to own". So in that case, they do own the car for the duration of the "rent" period. This also means that if they repossess the car, the buyer loses everything no matter how much or little they still "owed" on the car. It's not the same as your normal car dealers, where you actually buy the car by taking out a loan and using the car as collateral.
That's exactly how it worked on every computer I ever came across. For normal operation you'd always have the computer in 'turbo'.
Will it install on My Computer?
Microsoft will only let you go back two versions, so a Windows 8 license does not allow you to go back to XP, unless you meant XP mode in Windows 7. You could, however, install Vista if you really wanted to, though that's going to get cut off pretty soon when they release Windows 10. Actually, at this point you really can't get XP on a new PC. Microsoft isn't licensing XP to OEMs, OEMs can't license a newer version and downgrade to XP, and Microsoft stopped selling XP retail some time ago. You can install it yourself if you have a MSDN subscription, or if you bought the full retail version back in the day that allows you to move it to new hardware, or if you are a large enough company to negotiate some special deal with Microsoft.
As if someone doesn't also have to invest time into a Windows (or OSX) system depending on their level of expertise?
If you don't need the VM for long term, you can download an evaluation version of Windows that expires after a bit. There's currently a 8.1 evaluation that's good for 90 days, and a technical preview for 10 that's good until (I think) April. You can also just reuse your Vista or later Windows disk, skip typing in the key, and it'll run for a few days before demanding a key though I don't know if this would technically be a license violation. Finally, with some versions of Windows 7 you can install XP mode for free, which gives a Windows XP VM that you can play around with.
That would be my guess. Before TRIM became a thing, some of the early drives would try to understand the file system to know what blocks weren't being used. Many of these drives only understood NTFS which is why they wouldn't perform as well in Linux (or if you ran Windows but turned on full disk encryption).
They won't bother with taxing charging stations. What they want to do is put a GPS tracker in every car so they can track where the car is at all times... errr... I mean tax based upon where the car has been driven. They're been pushing for this already.
My tap water is pumped out of an aquifer where it has been for decades. This is of course, unsustainable in the long term, but in the meantime I'll take my chances with my tap water (which tastes great, by the way) instead of the bottled stuff.
Up north it's not uncommon to see temperatures that low. I've never seen analog gauges in a car or truck act up at those temperatures. LCDs generally work, but the contrast can get screwy making them hard to read, and they update really slowly. LED and vacuum florescent displays are generally fine.
I've never heard of that. I've always just used scientific notation to remove any ambiguity. Sure, 1 x 10^1 or 1.0 x 10^1 is a bit more cumbersome than 10, but at least it's clear.
To be fair, he only claimed it will readable. That doesn't mean we'd be using CSS 500 years from now, but that a computer 500 years now would be able to understand it.
The jokes about Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh date back more than 10 years before the release of Vista. Besides, I used Vista on a Phenom II with 8GB of ram, and when you throw that kind of hardware at it, the performance was perfectly fine. I also ran it on an older P4 with 2GB of ram, and even then it wasn't horrible.
There never was a 4GHz P4 released, so it's not clear how that's even in the database. Maybe it's some engineering sample, though as someone else pointed out it's half as fast as the 3.8 Ghz P4 (the fastest released Pentium 4) so my guess it's an error. In any case, I wouldn't use if for any meaningful comparisons. Also, you might want to note that the Core i7 has a turbo boost up to 3.3 Ghz and I would have to assume that's what it's really running at during any benchmark, so to call it a 1.7 Ghz CPU is misleading at best. It's also a dual core, so to compare it to single core is also bit unfair. Perhaps the closest comparison might be the Pentium D Extreme Edition which was two hyperthreading P4's in a single chip which would be the closest thing to the i7.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1955&cmp[]=1130
You'll see that the i7 is now only about 4-5 times faster.